# Ceiling decoration

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## Artwork

- Artist: [FOCCHI, Ferdinando](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/focchi-ferdinando-r8951e5d40ddab3>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The ceiling of the library of the Santo in Padua was painted by Ferdinando Focchi, a pupil of Canuti, in a well-documented commission. The central panel by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini is surrounded by elaborate quadratura and numerous symbols of scholarship. The Virgin in the centre appears before a number of Franciscan saints as the Immaculata.

## Attribution

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